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The Hospice Action Network Presents 2023 Angel Awards Honorees

NHPCO

The HAN Angel Awards were created to recognize select members of Congress on both sides of the aisle for their ongoing efforts to amplify the voices of patients, families, providers, and those advocating for the vital mission of hospice and palliative care in supporting patients and their families facing serious or life-limiting illness.

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Inside Palliative Care at Contessa’s Health System Joint Ventures

Hospice News

“Our joint venture partnership model with leading health care systems and our relationships with health plan insurers facilitate our ability to take and manage additional risk for this patient population in value-based arrangements.” The insurance company provides the patient data and claims,” Black said during the presentation. “So

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

Hospice News

This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference.

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Challenges for children’s palliative care

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

In this week’s blog, the 5th and final of our CYP series, Gilda Davis @GildaMDavis, Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing at the University of Worcester discusses challenges affecting children’s palliative care. 2021) What does effective end-of-life care at home for children look like? Holdsworth, L.

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Respiratory Illness Surge: Differentiating and Treating RSV, COVID, and Flu in Children

AJN Off the Charts

While RSV, COVID, and influenza are all viral infections that cause acute respiratory symptoms, they can present with subtly different symptoms. The CDC reported the first pediatric death from influenza for the 2022-2023 season in its October 28 Weekly U.S. Escalate care. RSV, influenza, COVID have subtly different symptoms.

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Congressional Briefing Demonstrates the Value of the Medicare Hospice Benefit

NHPCO

For Immediate Release July 28, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Produces Better Outcomes, Lower Medicare Costs (Washington, D.C. With hospice, you can provide that care at home.” Key findings from the Value of Hospice study include the following: NORC estimates that Medicare spending for those who received hospice care was $3.5

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Hospice News

What is age-friendly care, and why is it important now? One of the significant innovations that I’m very happy to bring forward on behalf of CHAP is Age-Friendly Care at Home. Finish this sentence: “The top strategy that care providers should employ in 2022 to best prepare for 2023 is…?”.